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The sea can wash away all evils [electronic resource] : modern marine pollution and the ancient Cathartic Ocean / Kimberley C. Patton.

By: Patton, Kimberley C. (Kimberley Christine), 1958-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c2007Description: xx, 185 p. ; 22 cm.Subject(s): Water -- Religious aspects | Ocean -- Religious aspects | Ocean | Marine pollution | Purity, RitualGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 201/.77 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The Dutch bread-man : ocean as divinity and scapegoat -- The crisis of modern marine pollution -- The purifying sea in the religious imagination : supernatural aspects of natural elements -- "The sea can wash away all evils" : ancient Greece and the Cathartic Sea -- "The great woman down there" : Sedna and ritual pollution in Inuit seascapes -- "O ocean, I ask you to be merciful" : the Hindu submarine mare-fire -- "Here end the works of the sea, the works of love".
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-176) and index.

The Dutch bread-man : ocean as divinity and scapegoat -- The crisis of modern marine pollution -- The purifying sea in the religious imagination : supernatural aspects of natural elements -- "The sea can wash away all evils" : ancient Greece and the Cathartic Sea -- "The great woman down there" : Sedna and ritual pollution in Inuit seascapes -- "O ocean, I ask you to be merciful" : the Hindu submarine mare-fire -- "Here end the works of the sea, the works of love".

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.